Still in Love with You: The Story of Hank and Audrey Williams

I enjoyed this book very much. Lycrecia a very nice person, who went through Hell because of her parents addictions and marital problems. It was warm and real and touching. Many statements from family and friends to tell the story of what really happened. They were there. At the end of the book, Lycricia thanks you for reading her book. Well, thank you for writing it, Lycricia. Now I know a little more about the mystery that always surrounded Hank and Audrey Williams. I loved hearing about their home life, and a legend has come to life. May they both rest in peace.

Of the 10 or so major contributions in book form regarding Hank and Audrey that have sifted down and settled thru the gravel of time, I found this book to be the most important as far as really getting an intimate feel on what it was like to see these two alive, in love, in anger and in all their glory. One cant help but root Lycrecia on as she obviousley loved her mother and her stepfather, despite their many flaws. After completing this book (and I have read it several times) I finished with a sense that Lycrecia is a good natured person, who made her peace with a situation that she could have just have easily chosen to be bitter and disgruntled over. This woman appears to have hidden nothing. And their are some ugly bits in here, I assure you. But she also doesnt hide that she loved her mother, and father....but Midway thru the book you can sense that she had to detach from her mother and and her mother's sad spiral downwards into a narciscist's dismal finale of lonesomeness and discontent. The pleasure of this book, to me, was in the details....from birthday serenades to the color of the wallpaper in the homes she grew up in. History is so heavily buried in accounts Of Hanks tragic, suffering and misery that the reader has to regroup here and there and realize that Ol'HAnk had fun and family and horses and ailments and good times. To Lycrecia he was and will always be "Daddy" and I liked how that made me feel. HANK WILLIAMS HAD MORE THEN MISERY....some might not want that to part of the picture, but its there and personally I will forever be grateful to Mrs. Lycrecia for that. As a woman, I read this book and it felt like a letter from an old freind. Partly because a Southern Woman seems to be born with this endearing quality, usually complimented by a grit-eating grin. THis book is one of my favoritemosts! An absolute MUST have for any Hank and/or AUdrey enthusiast. IF you are just starting to consume the information about Hank's life ....go for Escott's Bio and the Snapshots from a lost HIghway.....and then, because its a sweet and satisfying read, have this book for dessert.

This book is kind of an oddity in the world of Hank Williams oriented literature. The earlier chapters (the ones about Hank Williams) are sketchy, in places, and though one senses a real affection for Mr. Williams in Lycretia's narrative, there are few new details to surprise the more than casual reader. Where this book comes to life and becomes a good read is in the second two-thirds, as the focus shifts to Audrey. Audrey has generally gotten a bad deal, both in life and in print, and this is the first book that has even attempted to humanise her. That it succeeds in doing so makes it all the more likeable, although the picture it paints of her final ten years is a bleak and depressing one, and the comment that it makes about Nashville and the music establishment deserves to be expanded to book length. Although only the most "completist" of Hank Williams collectors (or masochists) would want to hear Audrey's "greatest hits collection" (formerly available on Bear Family Records), most would do well to read this book, to get the full story of the oft-maligned "first" Mrs. Williams, and the horrible sad turn her life took.

I am looking for the contributor of this book, Dale Vinicur...Does anyone know how to reach her?